And any people that risks their lives and died trying to help our soldiers while our soldiers were being tortured and killed by the Japanese is worthy of our respect and should not be forgotten. We had been asked to leave by a left leaning government in the 1990's and political climates change.
And lets not forget that the U.S. supported Marcos who abused his own people and milked that country of money during his rule. Which precipitated a backlash in the 90's.
We cannot ever support dictators, in the long term we will suffer some way for it.
Sorry you are so grossly misinformed.
American blood and treasure have been spent over and over again to make the Philipnes a better place.
When Filipinos complain about American Imerialism they forget what real Spanish and Japanese Imperialism looks like.
Never claimed we are fighting Jihadist by ourselves.
You are living in a Fantasy land if you think the US can get by on a policy of never co-operating with dictators.
Without US giving Marcos the final push “People Power” would have never worked.
Without US support for Marcos a far worse Marxist dictator would have ruled there for many years.